A SIGN on the counter of the St George Bank "bragency" in Maclean says everything he needs to know about the company's attitude, according to one angry customer.

St George Bank was recently successful in the Victorian Court of Appeal in defending a claim by a second mortgagee disputing St George's ability to rely on default notices to recover amounts owing under guarantees.

THE former chief executive of St George Bank, Paul Fegan, has appeared in Federal Court to answer claims he engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct while head of the bank in 2008, in the lead-up to the bank's merger with Westpac.

Paul Fegan, the former chief executive of St George Bank, has denied that he deliberately misled and deceived his former employees when he wrote to them asking them to stay with St George while it merged with Westpac in 2008.